Pet Sematary
by Stephen King · first published 1983
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2008–2026first – last mentioned
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Pet Sematary is a 1983 horror novel by American writer Stephen King. The novel was nominated for a World Fantasy Award for Best Novel in 1986
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…sure I am all for finding treatments for Alzheimer's and so on, but aging itself, as outlined above, is just really an evolutionary necessity. Stephen King treats this sensitive topic well in his novel, 'Pet Sematary', dealing with both the human resistance to, and the biological necessity of, death, including the aging process leading into that. Personally I find great comfort in the idea that even if however many…
on “Aubrey de Grey: "What will happen if we cure aging?" (video)” ↗…comes along and tells the world "we're selling this cool book-writing robot, don't worry it won't ever spit out anyone else's books" and then the robot regurgitates an entire chapter from Stephen King's Pet Sematary, is that the fault of Stephen King or the person selling the robot?
on “GitHub Copilot, with “public code” blocked, emits my copyrighted code” ↗…called the market failures early this year. I've got A Canticle for Leibowitz and Anathem, which I'm doing as a pair. I started reading Stephen King in chronological order a while back, and I'm up to Pet Sematary (early 80s). Also, Crockford's JavaScript book.
on “Do you read?” ↗FTI: "Pet Sematary"[sic] is the name of a book by Stephen King: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pet_Sematary
on “This Cat Does Not Exist” ↗…someone's rendering of the same novel into, say Netflix, may expand your imagination and possibly show you how limited the director's version of the same story. I felt that with Stephen King's thrillers, Pet Sematary and Thinner, then watching them as movies.
on “Books I Loved Reading in 2024” ↗…the equivalent of people buying all the Stephen King books and using them to start a service that specifically makes books designed to replicate Stephen King writing. Claude being about to talk about Pet Sematary doesn't compete with the sale of Pet Sematary. An LLM trained on Stephen King books with the purpose of creating rip-off Stephen King books arguably does.
on “Anthropic: Developing a Claude Code competitor using Claude Code is banned” ↗